Longitudinal prediction of cardiovascular risk of elderly attended in an university health clinic in the city of Santa Cruz do Sul, RS

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Tatiana de Castro
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Couto, Analie Nunes, Wichmann, Francisca Maria Assmann
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Epidemiologia e Controle de Infecção
• Texto Completo: https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/epidemiologia/article/view/8196

Background and Objectives: The Evolution of cardiovascular risk with advancing age shown high, observing increased mortality. This study aimed to evaluate the prediction of cardiovascular risk in the elderly from anthropometric indicators, blood pressure and glucose levels in the period 2010-2015. Methods: It is based on retrospective analysis of questionnaires given to seniors enrolled in the Project "Promotion of healthy aging: Continuum monitoring of chronic diseases" and evaluated the variables: gender, age, systemic arterial hypertension (SAH), diabetes mellitus (DM), body mass index (BMI), sedentary lifestyle, family history, alcohol consumption, smoking. The conicity index (C index), waist circumference (WC), bloodpressure and blood sugar levels composed the study outcome at the beginning and end of the study. Statistical analysis was performed with SPSS 19.0, using the Mann-Whitney U test for inferential comparison in the five year period 2010-2015 and the Student t test for numerical variables, with significance level of p